This report is not sound (1).
Usāma ibn Zayd, on the authority of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wāqid, said:
“I saw Ibn ʿUmar performing the prayer; had you beheld him, you would have seen him muqlawliyyan (utterly still and absorbed) (2). I also saw him crumble musk into oil and anoint himself with it.”
ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī Jamīlah, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mawhab, narrated:
ʿUthmān said to Ibn ʿUmar, “Go and judge between the people.”
He replied, “Would you excuse me from that!”
ʿUthmān asked, “What makes you dislike it, when your father used to sit in judgment?”
Ibn ʿUmar answered, “I heard the Messenger of Allah — peace and blessings be upon him — say, ‘Whoever is appointed judge and judges with justice, the very best he can hope for is to escape with a clean record.’ So what hope do I have after that (3)?”
Al-Sarī ibn Yaḥyā, from Zayd ibn Aslam, from Mujāhid, reported that Ibn ʿUmar said:
“I have been granted, in the matter of sexual intercourse, something I know of no one else having been granted except, perhaps, the Messenger of Allah — peace and blessings be upon him.”
This report is transmitted only by Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbbād from him.
Abū Usāma related to us — ʿUmar ibn Ḥamza informed me, from Sālim, from Ibn ʿUmar — who said:
“I think a share of it has been allotted to me that was not allotted to anyone except the Prophet — peace and blessings be upon him.”
It was also said that Ibn ʿUmar would break his fast, before anything else, with al-waṭʾ (copulation).
Layth ibn Abī Sulaym, on the authority of Nāfiʿ, said:
“When ʿUthmān was killed, ʿAlī came to…"